Merry Christmas From The Staff at Dream Pod 9

Its the Holiday Season again and time for our Annual Xmas Gift. This year our Sculptor, Phil is showing some love for our Utopia fans with a Chibi N-Kidu Drone as this years Xmas gift. The Xmas 2017 Chibi N-Kidu will be automatically added into all DP9 Online Store Orders from now to the morning of January 3rd, 2018 that are over $100 USD before any shipping and taxes. Limit 1 free Chibi N-Kidu per customer.

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With all the HGB Kickstarter work our scheduled release last Friday of more Jovian Wars resin spaceships got forgotten. We have now added the 5 promised ships (Corsair & Intrepid for Jovian and Hydra, Chin, & Detroit for CEGA) to the DP9 Online Store along with any new resin habitat or special sections for them. Here is a link to their page for those interested and we also have two great starter packages there as well.http://store.dp9.com/index.php…

Seven ships for the Jovian Faction (Alexander, Majestic, & remaster Valiant, Forge, Ypres, Corsair & Intrepid) and Eight ships for the CEGA faction (Constantinople, Birmingham, & remastered Poseidon, Narwal, Hammerhead, Hydra, Chin, & Detroit) are now available. Attached to the post are photos of the assembled Jovian and CEGA resin spaceship miniatures available now. If you want to checkout the game we have a free to download Beta Rules ebook available on DriveThruRPG at the following link.http://www.drivethrurpg.com/…/Jovian-Wars--Alpha-Playtest-R…

We plan to release the remaining ships on December 22nd, 2017, just before Christmas. They include the new Lennox & Gagarin and remastered Athena, Javelin, & Thunderbolt for Jovian. Plus the new Appalachian, Charon, & Icarus and remastered Bricriu, Hachiman, Tengu, & Uller for CEGA, along with any new resin special sections for them.

We are planning a second Jovian Wars Kickstarter for sometime in early 2018 to get all the Venus faction spaceships and a few new exo squads produced. We hope for all your continued support, have a Happy Holidays!

This summer's Gen Con mini will be the Northern Headhunter gear holding a CNCS Banner. The miniature will also include a regular Hunter head if you want to model it is as a stock Hunter. Plus the banner has the left hand as part of the pole and we will be including two extra left hands; one holding a vibro blade and one with just a closed fist. Your free to customize the model as you like or even use the banner on another Northern model altogether.

The New Heavy Gear Blitz - Tabletop Wargaming - Beta Rules are now available to Pre-Order as a small A5 format (5.83" x 8.27") 134 b&w page softcover book for $14.99 USD on the DP9 Online Store. The free full size ebook (8.5" x 11") will go live on Friday, August 8th, before we head off to Gen Con, for the official book release. The cover has a construction cone orange color scheme and wire frame artwork, to give it a work in progress feel for the Beta Rules. The back cover has rendered gears and hoppers, here is the back cover text to checkout.

Phil has also been busy sculpting away, checkout the new Northern Stinger, a Camel Truck with Air Burst Missile launcher. The Stinger will be released at Gen Con in August as a single pack and plus just the ABM parts will be available to order in the custom parts section of the DP9 online store for players who want to upgrade existing Camel Trucks models.

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There's a list that I keep on my desk. It's not one piece of paper but a stack of post-it notes that I'm constantly adding to. It's become two piles because now I'm working on development of two games, Heavy Gear Blitz and Jovian Wars. The purpose of these list is to ensure that passing comments by players on the forums and messages to me do not get forgotten along with my own epiphanies and thoughts. There are rules comments and then there are rules observations. Questions about how the rules work and what their purpose is and that's where the concept of priority comes in.

The Gilgamesh Command Tank for Utopia is a model that has been in development for a long time. Originally there were a number of ideas starting as a regular tank, though slightly larger than normal to a kind of super Hittite, a kind of Armored Fighting Vehicle for the south, to a massive hover N-KIDU factory.

The design for the vehicle was always to be a command node for a N-KIDU based Utopian army. The idea was that a large tank could have a powerful communications system to coordinate a very large number of drones at one time. Originally the concept was more of an armored train pulling factory cars but that was discarded early both as a logistical problem for the rules as well as a nightmare for the cost of producing such a model. Read on for some thoughts about decisions we made regarding this centerpiece model.

Heavy Gear Blitz New Edition News and Downloads

Click here for news on the new edition of Heavy Gear Blitz which is currently under development. With Alpha/Beta playtest downloads of the new rules and armylists. Get involved in the playtesting and help us make the new edition the best miniature game out there!